Oil-can holder.



C. W. BECK. OIL CAN HOLDER. APPLIOATION FILED 00T. 19, 1911.

1,060,885, Patented May 6, 1913.

@WM A o fdfw@ FFE@ @FFltlht CHARLES W. BECK, OF ROCKVILLE CENTER, NEW YORK, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE AS- SIGNMENTS, TO MCI-ITGAN MOTOR SPECTALTIES COMPANY, 0F DETROIT, MTCHL GAN, A. CORPORATION OF MICHIGAN.

OEL-CAN HOLDER.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented May 6,1913.

To all whom t may concern Be it known that I, CHARLES BECK, a citizen of the United States, residing at Rockville Center, county of Nassau, State of New Yorlr, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Oil-Can Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The main object of this invention is to provide a very simple, durable and etlicient device for automatically gripping and holding an oil can.

A further object of the invention is to so construct the oil can holder that the oil can may be quickly disengaged therefrom, said can being yieldably held in position against accidental displacement.

Another object of the invention is to provide a simple device which may be readily secured in position within an automobile engine hood so that an oil can may be securely held in convenient position for use, and by a device which will yield and permit the can to be disengaged therefrom by a pull on the can.

ln the drawings, Figure l is a perspective view of the holder; Fig. 2 a side elevation thereof showing it secured in position and holding an oil can; Fig. 3 a plan view of the holder; Fig. d a plan view of a slightly different form of holder, and Fig. 5 a side ele` vation of the holder shown in Fig. el.

Referring to the various parts by numerals, l designates the main body of the holder which is formed of sheet metal stamped or otherwise pressed into form and consisting of the main semi-circular holding arm 2 and the upwardly extending radial supporting lug 8 which is perforated near its end for the passage of a securing screw or other device. The main holding arm 2, where it joins the supporting lug is bent upn wardly so that its main body portion is in a slightly higher plane than the attaching and supporting lug, as clearly shown in the drawings, for a purpose which will be hereinafter set forth. it the juncture of the supporting lug with the holding arm, two ldownwardly extending stops 4l: are formed integralwith the said arm, one of said stops being on each side of the holding lug. These stops are adapted to rest against the edge of the board or other support on which the holder is secured, as shown clearly in Fig.

2, to prevent the rotation of the holding arm and attaching lug about the securing screw.

Pivoted to the supporting lug at. the point where it joins the holding arm is a pivoted or swinging holding arm 5. This swinging holding arm is substantially semi-circular in plan view and is provided at its inner end with an upwardly extending inwardly inclined holding' lug 6 and at its outer end with a similar lug 9. The outer ends of the holding arms abut together on a radial line diametrically opposite the pivot of the holding arm 5, as shown clearly in Figs. l and 3 of the drawings. Fach holding arm is formed on its inner margin with a hook 7, said hoolrs being connected together by means of a coil spring S. It is manifest that this spring will hold the swinging arm yieldingly against the main or rigid holding arm. The main arm l is provided with an upwardly and inwardly extending holding lug l0 and the oil can is yieldingly held between the said three holding lugs, as shown clearly in Fig. 2 of the drawings. It is manifest that by grasping the oil can and pulling it outwardly the swinging holding arm will move outwardly and permit the can to be detached from the holder. vWhen it is desired to secure the can in place the swinging arm may be easily moved outwardly on its pivot to permit the insertion of the can between the holding lugs. The swinging holding arm is bent upwardly close to its pivot so that its main body portion lies above the pivot ll and in the same plane with the main holding arm. By this means the pivot is depressed below the surfaces of the holding arms and will not contact with the bottom of the oil can. rlhis is of importance for the reason that the oil can bottom would soon be worn and broken if it were brought in contact with a pivot head each tim it was inserted in the holder.

In Figs. 4 and 5 of the drawings l have shown a slightly different form of the device in which both of the holding arms 12 and 13 are hinged to the support-ing lug, said arms being connected together by means of a spring la. In this form of the device the holding lug is extended outwardly to form a suitable supporting plate 15 for the holding arms, said arms being pivoted close to the end of said plate.

In Fig. 4f the upper surfaces of the hold-- ing arins and the supporting lug are in the saine plane., portions of the arms and of the supporting lug being depressed at the pivetal point so that the pivot head will be bew .low the lower surface of the oil can When theean. is in position in the holder.

In the form of the device shown in Figs. 4L :ind 5 one of the upstanding holding` lugs 16 is carried by the supporting lug.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is:

v1. An oil can holder comprising a snpporting lug, a pair of holding arms pivotally connected together and carrying np standing' holding lugs7 the said arms being depressed at their pivot-al points to depress the pivot below the upper surface of said arms and a spring connecting said arms together', and a stop carried bv the holding lug and adapted to prevent'. the rotation of the Said lng.

2. in oil can holder formed ,ot' sheet metal comprising a main holding` arm. and a supporting lug integral therewith, the said supporting lug being depressed and carrying a pair of depending stops, a swinging holding arm pivoted on the depressed part of the holding lug, the main portion of said swinging erin being in the same plane Wit-h the mainholding arm, the tivo ends ot said arms abutting together on a radial line dianietricall)7 opposite the pivot of the swinging arm, a spring connecting said two arms tegetl'ier, and upstanding lugs carried by said arm and adapted to engage an oil can.

An eil can holder comprising a supporting lug having an integral rigid horizontal can'receiving and supporting arm, a corresponding can receiving and supporting arm pivoted to the rigid arm adjacent the supporting lug and lying in the saine plane with the rigid arin, the pivoted arm being termed with an upstanding holding lug adjacent the pivot and With a similar holding lug neer its free end, the rigidA arm. being also formed with an upstanding holding lug near its free end, both of Said arms being formed with depending lugs near their outer ends, a spring connecting said lugs together and dran/'ing the pivoted arm toward the rigid arm, the ends of the arms abutting together in their closed position.

ln testimony whereof l hereunto atlix my signature in the presence of two Witnesses.

CHARLES W. BECK. Titnesses Bessin MACDONALD, VILLIAM M. SWAN,

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Washington., D. C. 

